Exploring Taiwan - Tamsui & Shilin

in travel •  7 years ago 

As we enter our 10th year of our wedding anniversary, here we are in a foreign land of Taiwan, exploring the beautiful city of Taipei. We arrive this morning and our anniversary is tomorrow on the 2nd February 2018. It has been our mission as a couple to collect as much fuel (memories) as we grow old together. So this post is to share with you our trips and activities, perhaps one day you would fall in love with Taiwan as we did.

This going to be a long post with plenty of photos so I will try my best not to bore you. 😂

Our 1st day.

We took an early flight this morning via Air Asia and reached Taiwan earlier than scheduled. The current temperature now is between 10 to 12 degrees Celsius. We took an MRT from Taoyuan airport to Taipei Main Station and changed our train to Tamsui line for a stop at Jiantian where our accommodation at Who’s Knock Micro Apartment is located.

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Photo taken just below our apartment

For your information, we booked our accommodation via Airbnb. Henry, the homeowner is very attentive to every question I’ve raised. Since this is our first time booking an accommodation via Airbnb, we have some fears and doubts. It turns out that Henry’s apartment is beyond than what we expected. We couldn't be happier with the choice that we made.

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Decent deco at Henry's place. He's so thoughtful by giving us a chocolate for our anniversary.

So, why did I choose to book with Airbnb?

  • To have a new experience
  • Convenient
  • Fair deals
  • Personal touch
  • Making new friend

Prior our trip here, Henry had made an effort to send us directions on how to get to his place either by bus, taxi or MRT. With the PDF that he sent to us, finding his place is so easy. It's impossible for you to get lost.

Once we’ve settled down and made ourselves at home, we went down and had our lunch Taiwanese style just below our apartment. We had a fried rice, fried omelette and fried fish cakes. Me and hubby @danieldoughty could not believe that we’ve only paid less than 1 steem for the lunch. Haha.

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So, we’re back to Jiantian MRT station and bought ourselves an easy card. An easy card is a transportation card for you to have access to the public transportation. You need to purchase a non-refundable card at NTD 100 and top-up to any amount for the usage.

Our first tour for today is visiting the Fort San Domingo in Tamsui. From Jiantian, we need to change our train at Beitou and continue our journey to another train that consists of 13 stops before we could reach to Tamsui. And from there, we need to hop on a bus, R26 to Fort San Domingo.

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Within walking proximity of Fort San Domingo, there is so much to see and explore. This includes Tamsui Oxford Archives of Oxford College, Little White House, Ground of Aletheia University, British Consular Residence and Fisherman Wharf. There was so much to learn and it was an eye-opening to the history of Tamsui and Taiwan.

As soon as we done visiting all the tourist sites, we wanted to go to the National Palace Museum at Shilin. But then it began drizzling. Afraid that we might catch a cold, we’ve decided to postpone our museum trip and instead, we went for an early dinner at Shilin night market.

Shilin night market is a heaven for street foods. Feeling a little bit adventurous, we’ve decided to try the street foods as many as our stomach can take 😁. One of interesting experience was having the stinky tofu. It is not that bad and surprisingly it tastes good.

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Fried stinky tofu

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Food and shopping galore 👗👜👠 🍛🍢

It was 8:00 pm when we’ve finally given up and feeling tired. Without having decent sleep since yesterday, we both decided to go back and have an early rest.

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The view of the night market from our apartment

I’m going to write again about our trip tomorrow around Taipei. Till then, wǎn'an my fellow steemians 😉

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I visited Taipei few years back. I really enjoyed the street food at Shilin night market especially the famous fried chicken. I took the stinking tau foo too.

Yeah, we are so lucky that our accommodation is walking distance to Shilin Night Market. I’d really like the stinky tofu. The smell is tolerable, well at least for me. But the taste, yummy 😋

Happy 10th Anniversary to both of you @viverridae & @danieldoughty.

Thanks @ivora

Happy 10th wedding anniversary to the lovely couple..

Thank you

May more years pass & still love each other more than yesterday.
Blessed 10th wedding anniversary @viverridae & @danieldoughty

Thanks @gnaa80780912. Send regards to boi 😁

hahahahaha boringgg sa sini helpp meee im drowninggg..nsb ada steemit kikikiki..ba bawa ole2 😁😁😁

Sitttt.... haha

wah... food heaven! you have been traveling like no tomorrow these days. haha

Haha, it’s all about food, food, food! Screw dieting 😝

Blessed 10th anniversary to both of u! Nice place to celebrate n lots of good food.

Happy anniversary @viverridae and @danieldoughty 😉

Thanks @inugarang

Happy anniversary

Thanks @kendra4eva

Wow! Cantiknya rambut....Enjoy your trabel and hab a good time @viverridae 😀

Haha, thanks @annamocha

Happy 10th birthday to your daughter 😁

Thank u aunty @viverridae 😀(frm Nana)

You got a 48.39% upvote from @minnowvotes courtesy of @danieldoughty!